NSCF COMMITTEE STATUS REPORTS Committee Reports January – March 2017 www.skifederation.org PRESIDENT Lisa Beregi, President Arizona Ski Council I hope you have had a safe and successful ski season! For those of you Bay Area SnowSports Council that haven’t had enough, a great winter out west still has many resorts Blue Ridge Ski Council open and in great shape for those “last runs”. Central Council of California It was great to see several of you at MTS in Banff. It is always a good Chicago Metropolitan Ski Council opportunity to share some runs with Federation friends and touch base Cleveland Metropolitan Ski Council mid‐year. For those of you that were there, you know what a good Connecticut Ski Council networking experience MTS is. What I found most interesting was how Crescent Ski Council many clubs I interacted with that wanted to know the benefits of belonging to a council. So our work is cut out for us to reach out to clubs Eastern Inter-Club Ski League in our areas that do not belong to a council and share with them the Eastern Pennsylvania Ski Council added benefit of belonging to a council. Far West Ski Association Flatland Ski Association Unfortunately, I was disappointed to hear of clubs in our member councils that are disappointed in the communication they get from their Florida Ski Council councils. They didn’t know some of the simple things that we should be Intermountain Ski Council sharing with our councils: website, trip listings, and benefits that are Los Angeles Council of Ski Clubs there for them to utilize just for a few. Please take our meeting Metropolitan Detroit Ski Council presentations, quarterly updates and monthly Newsbeat and share with your clubs at your council meetings. It seems every year one of our big Metropolitan Milwaukee Ski Council difficulties is the trickledown effect of information. It is our responsibility Metropolitan New York Ski Council to provide what we get to our clubs and theirs to share with their Midwest Sport/Ski Council members. National Brotherhood of Skiers We are planning for our upcoming meeting at Sun Peaks in September. New Jersey Ski & Snowboard Council The Agenda Committee is working hard with both Federation members New York Capital District Ski Council and Industry to put together a schedule you will enjoy and learn from. Northwest Ski Club Council The meeting planning committee is in the process of getting the costs Ohio Valley Ski Council together for the meeting and plan to have the registration online by mid‐ May. This will give you two months to register. Orange Council of Ski Clubs San Diego Council of Ski Clubs Check out the attached “save the date” flyer. Do note that the schedule Sierra Ski Council will be similar to last year. Plan to arrive on Wednesday, September 6th Texas Ski Council as our business meeting will be Thursday morning. Council topics will be scheduled for Thursday afternoon, leaving Friday as in the past as our Western Pennsylvania Ski Council Industry shared topic day. Saturday will be our host resort’s day to show us around. Knowing that many will be travelling some distance, Saturday’s events will end around 3pm so you can leave if needed to fly out Sunday. Please keep in mind that when you register, you will need to let us know if you will be leaving Saturday so the resort can free up unneeded rooms they are holding for us during their busy summer season. Please let Cheryl Mann know if you have any agenda topics and let me know if you have any questions regarding the overall schedule and travel. Are you or your clubs taking advantage of the Federation Benefits? Remember to go look often at what is there and what is new. It is an election year, so please start sending Joe Harvis names (including yourself) of nominees for our elected positions. Juli Brace has included proposed Bylaws changes for your review in advance. If you have any comments, suggestions or other proposed changes please send them to her. Michelle Moskowitz has stepped down from the Eastern Region Rep and Website. She has recommended Joe Harvis to take over the Website, and he has agreed. He is looking for volunteers to help with keeping the site current, as well as some tech savvy folks. Please ask members in your council to get involved and help. Margaret Crum will be the new Eastern Region Rep, so expect to hear from her soon on the east coast. At the Annual Meeting last September, you agreed that a cost associated with the meeting was acceptable if necessary. The suggestion was also made that this could open up the possibility of a council hosting our meeting. Michelle Moskowitz will be researching the feasibility of this idea. Please help her if she reaches out to you for thoughts, suggestions and information about your council meetings. It is election time for many councils. Please send us your updated Presidents information for the roster including their name, email and postal addresses, home, work, cell and fax numbers. Lastly, I will be sending out an email after this Update goes out with several questions. Please be looking for it and respond as some questions will be needed information for the Federation and a preliminary head count for planning the Sun Peaks meeting. Thanks in advance for your help! I look forward to seeing all of you in September! VICE‐PRESIDENT William Shadbolt, Vice President Please refer to the RFP and Long Term Planning Report for details pertaining to those committees. SECRETARY Jane Gutierrez, Secretary Last December, I took on a new and expanded position at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. I went through a rigorous training period, and began my new position in March of this year. Because of the new demands of my job, I will not be able to move forward as secretary of the National Ski Council Federation. I hope that in the future I will discover another way to contribute some time to the organization without impeding on the commitment to my profession. If any of you know of someone who is interested in the position, please let Joe or I know and we will be able to give a summary of what’s expected. I truly appreciate the prompt submissions to this Quarterly Update. Looking forward to seeing you all at the convention in September! The membership roster is attached. Please review it and let us know of any changes in your contact information including name, email and postal addresses, home, work, cell and fax numbers. TREASURER Cheryl Mann, Treasurer Clubs were invoiced for dues and we have received 22 of the 29 councils to date. Requested assistance from Exec committee in obtaining dues from the remainder of the clubs. The bank balance as of 4/11/2017 is $15,333.35. Need to follow up with IRS to see if our fiscal year issue was remedied. The IRS admitted a data entry error changing our fiscal year to year end instead of as requested. COMMITTEES AGENDA Cheryl Mann Discussed potential agenda topics at the Texas Ski Council Bid Fest with vendors. Lisa Beregi did the same thing at MTS for the committee. Need to contact regional representatives and industry representatives to begin an active preparation of the agenda. The current agenda plan is to have a lengthy session on planning a trip where the vendors would address each step of the process and the councils would do the same. The thinking is to have a “transparent” bid preparation. AUDIT Susan Donlan There is nothing to report now since work on the audit committee won’t begin until spring. I am available for any further discussion regarding the recommendations stated in the Financial Records Review presented at our last Federation Meeting. BENEFITS Joe Harvis Please visit our website at www.skifederation.com for information about all our special member benefits. We have fabulous products and offers so check them out. We ae finalizing a new Travel Insurance provider with International Medical Group through their iTravelInsured group. Once finalized the offer will be posted to the website. Check for details soon. We are currently working with a new provider of Goggles with interchangeable lens’ and straps. The straps can have your club or council logo included. Stay tuned. We are actively pursuing additional vendors to add to our nationwide program. If you or any of your members have any suggestions to make the site better, or can recommend any new providers, we will be glad to pursue them. Please send us any suggestions and contacts as they are always welcome. In addition, please continue to send NSCF benefit offers to your council and your club members. We have worked hard to bring you these benefits, so let’s use them! Why not add links to the attached list on your club and council websites if you haven’t already done so? How about listing these benefits in your newsletters and announce them at meetings? Please help us to make our offerings known to all our members. Get the word out often. As always, if you know of a product/vendor we should pursue, please notify us at [email protected]. BYLAWS Juli Brace Attached separately are the Bylaws including changes that were proposed at the August 2016 meeting. Please review them for discussion and final vote at the next meeting. Below is the text of the proposed new policy, Removal from Office, to be discussed at the next meeting. Comments are welcomed of course before then.